
MEJ毛毛姐(Ø,G) $M | 🐜|Aug 06, 2025 12:31
I don't know how people usually deposit and withdraw funds, but I mostly work on large exchanges. After all, due to regulatory constraints, it is safer to choose large exchanges for normal trading. I have never been frozen (or maybe I have never withdrawn over 100000 yuan) 😂)
With higher requirements from global regulators for OTC trading, centralized exchanges are attempting to provide users with more secure fiat currency import and export services through sub products such as "strict selection" and "selective selection". In fact, Minan and Huobi are two exchanges that I often use, one CZ and one Sun Brother. They will never have problems with OTC 😂
In July 2025, King'an launched the "OTC Strict Selection Zone", while Huobi launched the "Selection Station" as early as April and continued to iterate. Although both have the same goal of reducing trading risks for users, there are significant differences in their strategic paths and product mechanisms.
So I will compare from four core dimensions, striving to provide an objective and verifiable reference for everyone.
1、 Product Function Design: Significant Differences in Currency, Direction, and Mechanism
At the basic function level, Huobi and coin security show different design priorities.
• Transaction direction support: Binance currently only supports "user sell", which means users exchange fiat currency for encrypted assets; Huobi supports two-way transactions of buying and selling to meet more diverse use scenarios.
• Supported currencies: Binance Yanxuan supports five mainstream assets: USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, and BNB, with a more comprehensive coverage of currencies; The Huobi selection station only supports USDT, focusing on stable currency transactions.
Price mechanism: Binance does not have price control rules, and advertising prices deviate significantly from market positions; Huobi has a "strict price control" mechanism for advertisements in the selection station, which makes the price more stable.
• Service charge mechanism: the service charge on the user side of Yuan'an is 0.2%, and the policy of zero service charge is adopted for Huobi. The hidden display setting of the handling fee of Coin Safety also caused some users to complain about the lack of transparency.
In short, Yanxuan is richer in asset types and platform structure, but Huobi has certain advantages in user transaction experience, cost and direction flexibility.
2、 Risk protection system: There are trade-offs between compensation methods and limitations
The 'compensation mechanism' is one of the core criteria for measuring whether the OTC trading zone is trustworthy.
Binance's approach is to establish a $1 million compensation fund and clarify that when users suffer asset losses due to the merchant being frozen by the judiciary, the platform and the merchant will each bear 25%, and users will receive a maximum compensation of 50% of the order amount. The prerequisite for compensation is that the freezing time must occur within 30 days of the completion of the transaction and be registered within 30 days. The process is standardized but has many restrictions.
• Huobi adopts a dual compensation strategy: default compensation is 10%, and 100% compensation is supported if the merchant is a "frozen compensation certification" merchant. The compensation conditions are based on "submitting appeal materials within 30 days from the date of freezing", which is slightly more lenient compared to Binance, but the size of the compensation fund pool is not specified.
From the user's perspective, Binance has a large amount of funds for protection, but the payout ratio is not high and the applicable conditions are strict; Huobi distinguishes business levels through labels, allowing users to make choices based on their own risk preferences, which makes the strategy more flexible.
3、 User Experience: The Path to Building Trust in Interface Design and Labeling Systems is Different
There are significant differences in product concepts between the interface and visual guidance
The Binance Strict Selection Zone does not have a clear distinction on the UI, only an additional "Strict Selection" filtering entrance in OTC trading. The merchant display space, nickname, tags, etc. have not been further optimized, and users need to understand the rules before using them, which can easily lead to misunderstandings.
• The Huobi selection station has made more customizations to the advertising pages, such as the "black gold logo", "Blue Shield certification" and "frozen claims certification", which are clearly displayed, so that users can clearly know the level of merchants and their promised guarantee standards.
This makes Huobi build a more intuitive trust path on the user side, while the strict selection of coin security still stays at the stage of "mechanism+page coexistence" rather than "mechanism integration experience".
4、 Market strategy: The difference between service targets and platform positioning determines the playing style
The target user groups served by both also show a trend of differentiation at the strategic level:
Binance's strict selection area is more designed for "large withdrawal users" - the high margin threshold (110000 USDT) limits the number of merchants who can join, and the supporting compensation fund and professional customer service system attempt to attract institutions or high net worth users with higher demand for "stability".
• The Huobi selection station is aimed at a wider range of ordinary users - merchants have a low threshold (15000 USDT), strong price competitiveness, and zero handling fees, emphasizing "availability" and "cost performance" rather than extreme risk control.
There is no superiority or inferiority between the two strategies, only that the user base they stand on is different, resulting in different design logics.
My summary! Two paths, serving different transaction profiles
From this comparison, it can be seen that:
Binance's strict selection of mechanisms ensures the safety of funds, the entry threshold for merchants, and platform risk control intervention, making it suitable for users with high security requirements and large transaction amounts;
• Huobi selection focuses more on user experience, emphasizes low cost, visual trust building and flexible label management, and is suitable for ordinary users who use OTC frequently and are sensitive to price and efficiency.
For the entire industry, the parallel of these two paths is actually a benign exploration. Against the backdrop of stricter compliance policies and frequent judicial freezes, it is commendable for centralized platforms to enhance user trust through "self-regulation".
In the next stage, the more crucial issue may not be whether to compensate or not, but how to make the trust mechanism known in advance, transparent in the process, and efficient in the results, shifting from "compensation after the fact" to "avoidance before the fact". In this regard, there is still considerable room for optimization, no matter in terms of currency security or Huobi.
What I want to say is that after speculating in the cryptocurrency industry, it will become more and more normalized. Facing global users, it is necessary to focus on deposit and withdrawal. How to make it more convenient for users and meet the needs of most users are issues that major exchanges need to consider.
I am glad that the leading exchanges have taken it seriously, ensuring the safety of our individual investors' funds.
@Justinsuntron's deposit and withdrawal are very safe, don't worry!
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